Description
Jenzabar JICS (aka Internet Campus Solution) before 9.0.1 Patch 3, 9.1 before 9.1.2 Patch 2, and 9.2 before 9.2.2 Patch 8 has session cookies that are a deterministic function of the username. There is a hard-coded password to supply a PBKDF feeding into AES to encrypt a username and base64 encode it to a client-side cookie for persistent session authentication. By knowing the key and algorithm, an attacker can select any username, encrypt it, base64 encode it, and save it in their browser with the correct JICSLoginCookie cookie format to impersonate any real user in the JICS database without the need for authenticating (or verifying with MFA if implemented).
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
https://medium.com/%40mdavis332/higher-ed-erp-portal-vulnerability-auth-bypass-to-login-any-account-f1aeef438f80
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0134
EPSS Percentile
67.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-384
Status
published
Products (1)
jenzabar/internet_campus_solution
< 9.0.1
Published
May 19, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026